Temperature-regulating system for houses



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E. L. DOUGLASS TEMPERATURE REGULATING SYSTEM FOR HOUSES Filed Sept. 50. 1922 L. ooueLAss.

Patented Feb. 12, 1924.

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD I. DOUGLASS, OF JACKSBORO, TEXAS.

Application filed September 30, 1922. Serial No. 591,533.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. DOUGLASS,

a citizen of the United States, residing at J acksboro, in the county of Jack and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Temperature-Regulating Systems for Houses, of which the following is aspecification.

This lnvention relates to systems for regulating the temperature of the air in a room or house and has special reference to an improved cooling and heatingtsystem.

It is a well understood fact that; the temperature of the air in a well, a ditch or be- 1 low the surface of the ound is usually very much cooler than t e corresponding summer temperature and warmer than the usual winter temperature, especially in the latitude of the temperate zone.

One important object of the invention is to provide an improved and novel means for utilizing these physics laws in the heating of a house in winter time and in the cooling of a house in the summer time.

tion is to provide a novel arrangement of such means WlllCll maybe economically installed and which will also be economical.

in operation.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

The accompanying drawing is a view partly in elevation and partly in section showing the application of the device to a typically indicated building. I

In the embodiment of the invention herein illustrated there "is disclosed an air pump 10 which may be provided with a belt pulley 11 for connection of a belt 12 to a 5 motor 13 here shown as an electrical motor. It will be obvious that other means may be utilized for operating the pump 10 and it will be seen from what follows that the particular means employed may be A second important object of the inven-' varied at will without departing from the spirit i This tank is buried sufficiently far below the surface of the ground and that which is at atmospheric temperature above the ground will have little, or no effect in the stratum inwhich the tank is buried. The tank 15 is connected to the pump 10 by means of a pipe 16 and from this tank leads a pipe 17 which is connectedto a pipe, conduit or coil 18 located in a well, ditch or other opening under the surface. This coil may either be located in the water in a well, or just above the same. From the coil 18. a pipe 20 leads to the building 21 being there conducted into the various rooms and having in each room one or more outlets, and there discharged for cooling or heating. This tank being buried has the effect of cooling or warming the air before it leaves the tank, this being a preliminary cooling or warming. From the tank air passes to the.coil 18 where it is still further cooled or warmed and from thence it volume of water, a tank buried in the earth at a location spaced from the side of the well, pumping means for forcing atmospheric air, a pipe for conducting the air from the pump to the tank, the transverse sectional area of the ipe being less than the transverse sectiona area of the tank, a

second pipe leading from the tank at a point which is spaced from the oint of entrance of the first mentioned pipe with the tank, the second mentioned pipe being substantially of the same diameter as that of the first mentioned pipe and being less in transverse sectional area than the transa section leading from the coil and enterlng the building and provided with an air opening which is located within the buildmg. i

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWARD L. DOUGLASS. 

